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Going through security at the Branson Airport a few minutes ago and the lady says sir do you mind if I search your bag ? As if I am allowed to say no!! She goes on to tell me that there is a limit of liquids I can take in a carry on. News to me. Haven't flown in about 5 years. Proceeds to throw away my shaving cream. I may look like grizzly Adams in a week or so. If I ever find the pudgy blonde shaving cream bomber that I was confused for I'm gonna rip him a new one!!!!!!

Incredible ..

Some guys still use shaving cream?

you expect common sense and logical behavior out of TSA?

"As if you are allowed to say no"

Just think, you payed good money for that abuse too.

Not like it's on every airline's web page and plastered all over the airport, but yeah, it's TSA's fault.

Okay so I'll ask:

She took your shaving cream but not your razor?

When has ignorance ever been an excuse?

Wsmnut

We had some interesting times with TSA flying back and forth to Chicago, Illinois following my surgeries. They didn't like the drain bulb hanging off a cord and going inside my shirt and into a little pouch. I had a letter from Cancer Center Treatment of America along with my name tag from there, but they got a little uptight about that cord going into my shirt. I had the letter in my hand and above my head asking them to PLEASE read it. I guess it was time for a bit of drama so I proceeded to get my private pat down search.

TSA allows liquid, but they must be in 3 ounce bottles. You can find the 3 oz bottles in the travel section of most department stores. I keep all my liquids on an outside zipper pocket on my suitcase so I can get to them easily. It's never fun to have them dig through your entire bag. The liquids must be checked in and never in a carry on.

Conspiracy to make you convert to islam?

Took my can of Barbasol a couple years ago, I wasn't happy. That's good stuff. Beardbuster......hell yeah with aloe!

Glad it wasn't Gillette?

I went through once and had my pocket seal embosser in my carry on:



The actual embosser pulls out and slides into the handle.

TSA worker inspects my bag and finds it, removes it from its leather case, and asks, "What's this?" Then calls another big burly dude over.

"What's this?" he asks.

"It's my surveyor's seal"

Two more approach from behind, I must have missed the cue for reinforcements.

He's fumbling with it, obviously confused by the high tech, so I hold out my hand and offer to show him how innocuous it is.

Next thing I know, the original TSA super dwarf has a hand on my chest, and Larry & Curly behind me are grabbing arms.

I went limp, offering no resistance for fear of riding the lightning or warranting a body cavity search.

Scores of soccer mom's looking at me like a terrorist.

Took some 750 year old blue hair Notary to explain to the posse what it was, while I was being rag dolled.

I haven't flown since...

A lot of the time TSA personnel don't even know their own rules...kinda like the USPS

^^^THIS^^^X's 100000000000000000000

Gunner

Yep. I am traveling through the College Board to Salt Lake City to grade some AP History tests. I just booked thru their agency. Haven't visited an airline website in years. Maybe a decade or more. I guess you live and you learn.

How the hell can that embosser be construed as something dangerous unless you put your balls in it? Who doesn't know what an embosser is anyway, or can figure it out.... Where do they get these clowns?

For some of us, it's that or the magnifying mirror. At least you can see where you already shaved....

Cocky little pr!ck took toothpaste in Denver.

And they think we are the crazy ones.

It would have to be a DIRE emergency before I would even attempt to fly. If I can't drive there I don't go.

Don't blame you at all.

Noticed a display of seized items in the Boise, Id airport. Why on earth would they take a 2 inch trailer hitch ball away from someone?

I am seriously old, as I remember flying from Seattle to Washington DC with 3 cased rifles as carry on. The nice lady on the plane put them in a front cabin closet with their raincoats so folks would not knock them around in the overhead bins.

I wonder if one could carry on a fly box filled with 15 or 20 Atlantic salmon patterns tied on 1/0 hooks?

On every flight I've taken in the last 10 years, my checked luggage is opened and examined and they leave a sheet to that effect. I have a shaving bag that goes everywhere including hunting/fishing camps. There in are: flashlights, batteries, hemostats, scissors, knives, Leatherman, flints and steels, GPS unit, diamond sharpener, lighters, fork/knife/spoon, and a variety of screws, nuts, washers and springs. Lately, I've been including a "Have a nice day card" on top. Must really turn on the lights when that condensed bundle shows up on an X-ray.

I need read up on the firearms regs for destination and connection points and maybe include a cheap handgun. After check in, I think ones baggage is secured and it's not to be reopened.